Dave Shield wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:22 -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote:
>
>
>>Dave> I'd actually be rather
>>Dave> surprised (and somewhat disappointed) if SNMP tools were still
>>Dave> being made that *only* understood SMIv1.
>>
>>Unfortunately this is actually the case Dave.
>
>
> This is Not A Good Thing, and Not To Be Encouraged.
>
> (Though I know you don't need me to tell you that!)
>
>
>> There are a large
>>number that still only support SMIv1 and since conversion is easy all
>>they have to do is document how to convert it and put the burden on
>>the users.
>
>
> It's probably been a while since I've said this:
> There is limit to how far I am prepared
> to pander to Wilful Stupidity!
>
>
> Referring to the developers and vendors of such tools, I hasten to
> add. I'm not trying to get at the poor overworked administrators
> who have to put up with such shoddy, selfish, shortsighted, slapdash,
> and other-adjectives-beginning-with-S behaviour.
I think the phrase you are looking for is "bean counter mentality". It
costs serious money to add SMIv2 to old and largely unmaintainable code
for no economic return. Especially when you don't have SMIv2-only
objects, and so a straight v2 -> v1 translation is possible.
--
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
-- Dr. Who
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